Product details
ISBN
9781485601333
Published
2014-01-14
Publisher
New Africa Books (Pty) Ltd; New Africa Education
Weight
500 gr
Height
250 mm
Width
150 mm
Thickness
15 mm
Age
J, 02
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
72
Author
Biographical note
Sindiwe Magona was born in a village in the Eastern Cape and grew up in Gugulethu. She completed three years of high school and trained as a primary teacher. Unable to find work, she took a job as a domestic worker, and by twenty three had been deserted by her husband left her with three children. Poverty and single parenthood did not prevent her from obtaining a matric. She has degrees from UNISA and Colombia University in the US, and has work for the UN in New York, where she lived for twenty three years.
Manyano School was a scary place, no kidding. The fence had holes big enough for a grown man to run through. And grown men did. The walls of the buildings were thirsty for paint. The buildings themselves looked scared. The schoolyard was full of weeds and rubbish: broken bottles, out-of-shape cans, skins from long-ago-eaten bananas, mango pips and things you could no longer tell what they had been before they all came and got vrot there. We never played in our schoolyard. Too scared of what might happen. And a lot happened in that yard ...and most of it wasn't nice stuff. Until ...
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Manyano School was a scary place, no kidding. The fence had holes big enough for a grown man to run through. And grown men did. The walls of the buildings were thirsty for paint. The buildings themselves looked scared. The schoolyard was full of weeds and rubbish: broken bottles, out-of-shape
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Product details
ISBN
9781485601333
Published
2014-01-14
Publisher
New Africa Books (Pty) Ltd; New Africa Education
Weight
500 gr
Height
250 mm
Width
150 mm
Thickness
15 mm
Age
J, 02
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
72
Author